A historic and famous mega Vishal Dangal of Jammu District was organized by Dhann Jallara Dangal Committee in collaboration with J&K Indian Style Wrestling Association under the overall supervision of Parma Nand, Yesh Paul Sharma, Ram Paul Sharma and Bushan Kumar Sharma.

In all 67 bouts were played in the one day long vishal dangal and an expenditure of Rs 3, 50,000/- has been incurred for the conduct of Dangal.

MLA Akhnoor Rajeev Sharma was the chief guest on the occasion who distributed cash prizes among the winners and runners-up. He also announced an amount of Rupees two Lac for the development of Akhara. Joint Secretary J&K State Sports Council Shiv Kumar Sharma who is also Treasurer Indian Style Wrestling Association of India & President J&K Indian Style Wrestling Association presided over the function. Vice-Chairman J&K State Advisory Board for Development of Kisans Daljeet Singh Chib and Social Activists and Wrestling promoter Ram Paul Sharma were the guests of honour.

The second main bout was won by Manna of Punjab who defeated Nisar of J&K Police, resident of Doda. Winner Manna was cash awarded with Rs 15,000 while runner-up Nisar got Rs 10,000. The third bout was won by Babba of Kot Bhawal who defeated Gur Sewak of Patila. 4th bout was won by Dato of Gerogia who defeated Kulbir Singh of Kot Bhawal.

SRINAGAR, Aug 8: The cross-LoC trade on Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road resumed today, more than two weeks after it was suspended following recovery of heroin and brown sugar from a truck coming from Pakistan Administered Kashmir.
Ahead of the resumption, authorities sealed the Customs Department office at Salamabad Trade Facilitation Centre at Uri on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad route after the staff posted there “absconded” from duty, officials said.
“We sealed the Customs’ office for security reas